St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-30
WOULD BUY THE MESSAGE.
New York Papers Anxious to Sc
cure CIeVeIand'S Annual.

Special &c the Globe
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-There is q
standing offer out for the first copy of
the presidents message. This occurs
annually. New York papers are willing
to pay price for the corruption of some
government official through whose
hands the copy will pass. While Mr..
Rounds was public printer there was no
opportunity for this thing to be done.
''Sterl'' was able to set up the matter
himself, and he did so. Every afternoon
Mir. Rounds would drive up to the
White house and get an immense
take" of the message until it was all in
type, i'll his own private Office, under
lock and key, and under the eye of a
truSty Waterman. Hence stealing the
message was impossible. One doughty
chap yentured to personally solicit from
Mr.. Rounds for price the first proof of
the message in 1882. He has not yet
quite gotten over the shock of Rounds
denunciation and threat of dire punish
ment by the law Mr.. Benedict does
not care to do the work. when he be-
lieycs that he has employees whom he
can trust. Besides. it is understood
that the message is an unusually long
one. One of the best and quieteSt
rooms in that great building has been
fitted up as a secret composing room,
and the work is already in hand. Sey-
eral of the best cOmpOSitOrS and the
best proof readers are admitted 10 this
room every day, and there they work on
their takes right under the eye of Mr..
Benedict himself. The takes" are re-
turned to Mr.. Benedict before any more
copy is given out. There is
NO ''SoLDIERING"
iii that little room or any nonsense of
any kind. Every man clicks along, and
the galIeys are gradually filling. The
president is slower than usual with his
copy. He sends little bits of matter
down to the public printer. and will add
nothing until the little bit is completed,
proved and returned to him for re
wise" Then he gives out some more of
the precious manuscript. written nearly
all of it i'll his cramped little hand.
Thus. ii Will take clear up 10 the meet
ing of congress to get his message conf
pleted. and the public printer will be in
luck if he is able TO lay the matter be-
fore congress as soon as the president
/ does his manuscript copy. Indeed, I'M
less Grover doth hustle himself, it is
possible that he may not be wholly
ready to meet the Legislators of the
land With greeting such as he intends
10 give them. The message is expected
TO he something of great Importance and
Yaluc to the party, as well as TO the
country. 1t has been intimated that
the Democratic national platform for
1855 will be written between the lines
of the forthcoming message. There
will be recommendations to congress
which will embody the views of the
president upon topics of national i'm
pOrtance, and which he desires the lead
erS Of the Democratic party i'll the house
to take especial notice of and act upon.
1t is anticipated that he will refer to the
platform upon which he was elected,
and show how far he has been able TO
carry out the pledges there made and
wherein he has been eStOppcd either by
REPUBLICAN, OPPOSITION
in the house or impOtent Democratic
failure to cooperate with him i'll eXecu-
tive matters. In other words. it is eX-
pected that the message will be re-
markable document, in that it will 20
outside of the ordinary announcement
70 congress that eve are at peace with